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The media covers this moronic non-story that is a bunch of politically overblown hype, meanwhile Congress has done exactly nothing over the Equifax hack which affected half the country in a very real way.

Insane idiots all of them. Across the board Term Limits now!

rotateleftbyte said:

sog35 said:

Here. We. Go.

I think we will be seeing an iOS desktop very soon..

Hopefully in 5 years Apple is almost 100% vertically integraded and does not have to rely on any vendor to provide parts.

Welcome to seeing reports of all the hundreds (if not more) of patent lawsuits filed against Apple the day that this is announced especially in the Radio space where there are literally thousdands of applicable patents. Buying from Broadcom takes a lot of that pain away.
This could tie Apple up in legal knots for years and years. Sometimes it is cheaper and easier just to pay Broadcom.

I'd also expect real estate prices in East Texas (close to the courthouse) will rise significantly if Apple does this.

The “venue shopping” type of lawsuits commonly filed in Texas are going to disappear. Apparently you missed this huge development.

http://fortune.com/2017/05/22/texas-patent-supreme-court/

Here's the thing... So-called "Whites" make up 73% of the US population, but a much smaller fraction of the world's population. Is this the alleged "imbalance" that is being addressed by Apple? If so, they better start hiring a LOT more Asians and Indians, otherwise this should be chalked up to Apple buckling under to political correctness run amok.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States#Race_and_ethnicity

	Population (2015 est.)	Share of total population
Total	316,515,021	100%
One race	307,067,138	97.0%
White	232,943,055	73.6%
Black or African American	39,908,095	12.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native	2,569,170	0.8%
Asian	16,235,305	5.1%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	546,255	0.2%
Some other race	14,865,258	4.7%
Two or more races	9,447,883	3.0%
White and Black or African American	2,407,385	0.8%
White and American Indian and Alaska Native	1,846,997	0.6%
White and Asian	1,871,046	0.6%
Black or African American and American Indian and Alaska Native	311,538	0.1%

And it should also be noted that less than 4% of the population falls into the label of "LGBT", yet this population is overrepresented both in the media and in these diversity pushes.

http://news.gallup.com/poll/183383/americans-greatly-overestimate-percent-gay-lesbian.aspx

This really puts Google on a collision course with Samsung, not Apple.

First they came for the iPhones, but I did not have an iPhone so I did nothing...

Then they came for WhatsApp, but I did not use WhatsApp so I did nothing...

MacPro said:

Pull out of Germany Tim.

Yep. This is just Germany using protectionism for their own weak competitors.

He's a prime example of why people cannot and should not trust their government.

It’s unacceptable that Apple should be caught so unprepared when this President made his intentions very clear about trade with China before and after the election. Apple should’ve been making plans for alternative suppliers and had those plans in place by now. It’s just plain tunnel vision.

The Supreme Court has already ruled against these unconstitutional attempts at “balancing” things by reverse-discrimination.

Ugh. Software development while all the teams are working independently must be a total nightmare for the usually collaborative Apple programmers.